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“We were destined to fight until the sky bled and worlds shook. But when he touched me, cradled my face as if I was the most fragile, beautiful being in the world, I melted.”
― Amber V. Nicole, The Book of Azrael

“If he breaks your heart, I’ll eat his.”
― Amber V. Nicole, The Book of Azrael

“I also promise that he will never lay a hand on you again. If he even tries to take you away, I promise I’ll make him regret ever being born.”
― Amber V. Nicole, The Book of Azrael

“To the stars who listen—and the dreams that are answered.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“I was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They were perhaps the only thing that kept me from teetering into utter despair.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“I sipped from my wine. "And if he had grabbed me?"

There was nothing but uncompromising will in his eyes. "Then I would have torn apart the world to get you back.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“A dragon without its rider is a tragedy.
A rider without their dragon is dead.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“I'm so wildly in love with you that I can't imagine what my life would even look like without you in it. And I probably shouldn't have said that, but if we're doing this, then we're starting from a place of complete honesty.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“if it weren’t all so beautiful, if every tiny thing weren’t so relentlessly fucking beautiful, perhaps I’d be the one with the paperclip, but instead I’ll wander through it alone, blessed with every friend there is.”
― Ben Reeves, Everything was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt

“But life isn't a house, is it? It's more like a hotel. And there are good hotels and there are bad hotels, but it's okay because you only stay in each one for a little bit. Maybe you're staying in a nice room with a comfy bed and good food, but the next could be horrible. Or maybe you're in the horrible one, but you know the next one might be better. And you're constantly moving, and things get better, and things get worse. But no matter what - it's not a house. You can't stay there forever.”
― Ben Reeves, Everything was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt

“The only thing more dangerous than a man with a bruised ego is a woman with a score to settle.”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“I’d rather be tortured by your presence than agonized by your absence.”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“Yes, I want your anger. Be as mad at me as you need to, just not from a forest away. Stay with me. Make me suffer for it. I’d rather be tortured by your presence than agonized by your absence.”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“When a community is built on removing access to information—from disempowering its people—there is no one to save them when a bigger threat rises.”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“I’ll make sure you are not a villain in this story. I will make sure you are nothing at all so that you are forgotten.”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“The system does not work for you, was never intended to work for you, but as an act of magnanimity on our part, you may choose the degree to which it works against you.”
― Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

“No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience. Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.”
― Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

“When the past is past, the dead will be found to not have partaken in their own killing. The families huddled in the corridors of the hospital will not have tied their hands behind their backs, lined themselves against the wall, shot themselves in the heads, and then hopped into mass graves of their own volition. The prisoners in the torture camps will not have penetrated themselves with electric rods. The children will not have pulled off their own limbs out and strewn them all over the makeshift soccer pitch. The babies will not have chosen starvation.

When the past is past. But for now, who's to say they didn't? Who can be truly sure, but the killers and the dead?”
― Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

“This work of leaving, of aiming to challenge power on the field where it maintains the least glaring asymmetry, demands one answer the question: What are you willing to give up to alleviate someone else’s suffering?”
― Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This